Do Your Best Coaching: Navigating A Coaching Engagement From Start To Finish

Engaging and accessible, Do Your Best Coaching offers coaches a framework and tools to carry out a healthy coaching engagement from start to finish.

Experienced executive coaches Laura Daley and Julie Hess walk readers through a full coaching engagement using the four phases of their Intentional Engagement Framework:

1) Creating the Container

2) Establishing the Through Line

3) Making Progress, and

4) Ending with Meaning

They provide field-tested tools, practices and structures for each phase, and conclude with insight into developing the most important tool in your coaching toolkit: you!

Using stories and examples that the authors pull from their own experience as well as dozens of colleague interviews, Do Your Best Coaching illustrates how to handle the many challenges, questions, and sticky situations coaches may encounter during an engagement. Do Your Best Coaching offers the opportunity to learn best practices from many of the top coaches in the field, and the encouragement to shift from habitual to intentional practices.

Easily adaptable for each unique coaching context, Do Your Best Coaching offers new and seasoned coaches alike the practical tools and the experiential wisdom they need to do their best coaching.

Julie Hess has worked with clients to achieve breakthrough results for more than 25 years. Today she divides her time between her executive coaching practice and supporting the development of other coaches as a coach supervisor and educator. Julie holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business, a PCC from the ICF, and is a CSA accredited coach supervisor.

Laura Daley is an executive coach, leadership advisor, and strategy consultant with more than 25 years of experience. She holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, a BA from Cornell University, and a PCC from the ICF, having trained at the Hudson Institute. Laura coaches executives, leadership teams, and coaches-in-training.